Sofia
The NATO has called on its member states to allow Ukraine to use Western weapons against military targets in Russia. At a spring meeting in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) adopted a corresponding declaration with the motto “Assist Ukraine to victory”. The time has come to lift some restrictions on the use of the weapons supplied, NATO Secretary General said Jens Stoltenberg.
As an example of a possible use of Western weapons, Stoltenberg mentioned the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, where the front line and the border with Russia more or less coincided. Ukraine would be weaker if we continued to provide it with only partial support, warned the chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA), Poland’s Michal Szczerba.
Ukrainian Defense Minister: Call to allies
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umjerov called on allies in a video message to use their air defense systems to close the airspace above western Ukraine. Umjerov reiterated that his country aims for full membership of NATO.
Parliamentarians from NATO member states and partner countries participated in the PV spring meeting. A German delegation also came to Sofia Bundestag.
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg mentioned three topics for the upcoming NATO summit in Washington in July: improving member states’ defense capabilities, support for Ukraine and global partnerships with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
The Parliamentary Assembly also called for the creation of a center to combat disinformation at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels.
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